{"id":103021,"date":"2019-11-01T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/353268"},"modified":"2019-11-01T19:25:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T19:25:00","slug":"hearthstone-battlegrounds-is-blizzards-card-based-take-on-auto-chess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/01\/hearthstone-battlegrounds-is-blizzards-card-based-take-on-auto-chess\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearthstone Battlegrounds is Blizzard&#8217;s card-based take on auto chess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard today <a href=\"https:\/\/playhearthstone.com\/en-us\/blog\/23156373?linkId=100000008826176\">announced<\/a>&nbsp;the addition of a new major mode to <em>Hearthstone,&nbsp;<\/em>branding it&nbsp;<em>Hearthstone Battlegrounds<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a notable update to Blizzard&#8217;s digital collectible card game because it appears to be chasing the popularity of&nbsp;<em>DotA Auto Chess&nbsp;<\/em>and other games in the fast-growing&#8221; auto chess&#8221; genre.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hearthstone Battlegrounds&nbsp;<\/em>appears to pit&nbsp;8 players against each other (in contrast to <em>Hearthstone&#8217;s <\/em>usual 2v2 format)&nbsp;and features a minion-recruiting mechanic seen in games like <em>DotA Auto Chess<\/em> and Riot Games&#8217;&nbsp;<em>Teamfight Tactics.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Blizzard&#8217;s Ben Thompson announced that the game mode would be released alongside&nbsp;<em>Hearthstone<\/em>&#8216;s upcoming <em>Descent of Dragons <\/em>expansion, which is expected to debut December 10th; <em>Hearthstone Battlegrounds<\/em>&nbsp;will be available in an early access form starting next week, with an open beta expected to kick off November 12th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard today announced&nbsp;the addition of a new major mode to Hearthstone,&nbsp;branding it&nbsp;Hearthstone Battlegrounds. It&#8217;s a notable update to Blizzard&#8217;s digital collectible card game because it appears to be chasing the popularity of&nbsp;DotA Auto Chess&nbsp;and other games in the fast-growing&#8221; auto chess&#8221; genre. Hearthstone Battlegrounds&nbsp;appears to pit&nbsp;8 players against each other (in contrast to Hearthstone&#8217;s usual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}